Aylesbury Vale
Istanbul

Istanbul

31 High Street, Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom

Salad • Coffee • Chicken • Ice Cream


"A terrible birthday experience. Upon arrival we were advised that the lamb dish main on the menu was not available, nor the king prawn dish that had attracted us to visit the restaurant in the first place. We waited a long time for service though the restaurant only had two diners when we had arrived. My starter was supposedly a GF sausage though I question if it really was GF after suffering the consequences after our visit Myself and another in the party had ordered a beef main. When it arrived the beef was very overcooked, dry and hard work; it was as if we were trying to eat our boots. We returned both dishes. On hearing our concerns the waitress was far from helpful. Not expecting chef to work wonders with seemingly a cheap cut of beef, I asked what they could prepare a GF alternative. The waitress suggested a feta salad. I laughed and I asked for a meat alternative. She replied that she didn’t know which options were GF and she tried to hand the menu to me, advising that she “was too busy”. The manager arrived and she too was far from helpful. I am a carnivore and a coeliac and I was told that it would take too long to cook another meat dish I opted out and I didn’t have a main. My co diner opted for a pizza alternative. There was no apology, just rudeness. The awkward moment came at the end of the meal when the waitress served the surprise birthday cake that my co diners had bought me…She opted to serve it to one of my co diners even though she was well aware that it was me who was celebrating a birthday, in order to avoid having to communicate with me. Appallingly poor service; poor value for money; cafe style decor. Never again!"

Prezzo

Prezzo

36 High Street, Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom

Pizza • Pasta • Vegan • Italian


"After spending 19 hours in the emergency department of the hospital we arrived in Buckingham around 2 pm and as we were hungry we decided to go to eat at Prezzo, which we had never been to before. As soon as we entered we saw a middle aged blonde woman who asked us if we had a reservation (which surprised me because the restaurant was empty except for 2 tables, I thought that she didn't seem to control the reservations she had, if she managed it well she would have known that we didn't have a reservation). She spoke to us all the time in a very rude way and looked down on us. We placed our order, but about 2 minutes later I went to the bar and asked her to please change some dishes, she spoke to me very rudely and started banging on the computer to cancel the dishes very aggressively and very angry. We ordered the following: Caesar salad, the portion of food is too small to be worth £13.95, a supermarket bag has a lot more, and they brought it to us without the egg. Spaghetti Bolognese, when we came in we saw at one of the tables that they served it with a large amount of bolognaise on a separate plate but they brought us very little bolognaise on top of the spaghetti, it doesn't seem to me to be a dish worth £13.50. Penne Alla Rusticana, a lot of penne and not enough chicken and only 4 small pieces of ham, the pepper was also scarce, the sauce was more like cream with a little tomato for colour, not much flavour, not a dish worth £14.50 either I had to go and get it to ask for grated cheese, the other table next to us had a large bowl of grated cheese for the same diners and we got a very, very small portion. For dessert we ordered tiramisu which was brought to us with a blonde hair on top. To pay I had to go again to look for her who was on the terrace sitting at a table with the chef looking at her mobile phone. We were treated as if we were not good enough for the restaurant or could not pay the bill, the meal cost us £64.10, which seems very expensive for the treatment and the food, in my opinion they gave us smaller portions because the manager did not like us. I have never been made to feel so bad. Of course I will never go to a Prezzo again."

Five Bells Vintage Inn, Country Pub

Five Bells Vintage Inn, Country Pub

40 Main Street, HP22 5RW, Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom

Pub • Pubs • Steak • British


"We booked a table for 15:00 on 8/10/23. When we arrived we were advised by the bar maid that they had a big table of people so that the food would be slightly delayed. We ordered our food at 15:05 after ordering drinks at the bar. We were sat on table number 106 which is located outside. We waited and waited and nothing came out. We in fact were presented with 1 meal (when there was 2 of us), which turned out to have been brought to the incorrect table! It got to 16:15 and I went inside to ask where our food was. I was then told by a different bar maid to the original one that the resturant had ran out of pork so the roast one of us had ordered could not be made. Why nobody told us that originally, I don 't know! To make things worse, one of the young waitress ' said that she had been waiting for the pork roast to be ready for over 40mins and neither she or anyone else decided to come and tell us! We ended up asking for a refund and even then, no one behind the bar knew how to issue one! It really was the worst customer service I have ever had anywhere. The worst part was not that we were starving, but it had gone past 4pm which means all the supermarkets were closed as it was on a Sunday so we couldn 't even go buy dinner from there! No one cared at all. They were happy to see us go. Absolutely pathetic service and I will be leaving this review on every platform I can, until I get a response from the 5 bells."

Prince Of India

Prince Of India

10/12 Aylesbury Road, HP22 6JQ, Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom

Balti • Curry • Indian • Vegetarian


"Ordered a takeaway last night after a long hiatus from using this business. Following a brave attempt from a staff member at being friendly as I walked through the door, that all very quickly evaporated to a surlyness bordering upon contempt within 20 seconds which became very apparent to me. I picked my order up at 11pm, they're open until 11.30pm according to their website, yet I could clearly see that they were not happy at all that I'd placed an order that late, and this was on a Thursday, not a Monday! The chef brought the food out, dressed in his coat, ready to go home, with his face literally tripping him up! I got home, only 5 minutes away, to find a tiny portion of rice, which was the only hot item, a main which was just about luke warm, and the starter cold, as in stone cold.This was after me picking up my food 20 minutes after placing my order as per their instruction. Food lacked any dimension regarding flavour of any sort, besides the distinct lack of temperature, I had paid £16.50 for not very much food at all, that was overall luke warm at very best. They are obviously happy to take your money without what seems to be a single thought about if you'd ever want to go back there ever again or recommend their restaurant to anyone else, what a way to run a business! I very simply won't ever be going back or giving them any sort of recommendation! I got a blatantly stark reminder that I obviously did have a very good reason for my long hiatus, but I had decided last night that I was prepared to give them another chance. Whereas, in actuality, they only succeded in demonstrating to me exactly why I hadn't used them in so many years in every single way. (I'm a Wendover resident for well over 20 years) My experience last night can only be described as totally diabolical, I didn't enjoy one single bit of the experience! I'll be using their direct competitor from now on, only up the road and they do actually seem to care what goes out of their door. Their service is good, and their food does have some proper dimension to it's flavours, unlike here....plus its never cold!! Spend your hard earned cash somewhere else is my advice, my experience with this restaurant has been outrageously bad on all counts, both now and all those years ago too. That goes for the food and a shocking attitude from the staff, because hospitality, it's definitely not! Seems like some leapords never change their spots and this one certainly hasn't, it's got worse if anything! I'm not one to normally leave reviews, but after last night's experience, I've decided to change all that, the good people out there have every right to know about what amounted to a pretty ghastly experience for me, from start to finish. As much as I'd love to support and recommend a local business, not this one, not on your Nelly!"